Load Balancing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Load Balancing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 103 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.081% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.49% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £576
25th Percentile - - £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -48.15% +3.05%
75th Percentile - £369 £703
90th Percentile - £380 £709
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,123 1,440 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.56% 88.02% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 762 993
10th Percentile £320 £325 £251
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 61 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £23.11
25th Percentile £17.50 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.41 £73.59
90th Percentile £81.45 £75.24 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.46% +7.58% +55.34%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Load Balancing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Load Balancing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -16 1 £400 +14.29% 5
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture